VMworld 2019 - Top Session Picks
VMworld 2019 is happening tomorrow (It is already Saturday here) and as I am just about to embark on the 20+ hour journey from PER to SFO I thought it was be...
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Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target Service Stopped
A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target . While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN H...
Released: vSAN 6.7 - HTML5 Goodness, Enhanced Health Checks and More!
VMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7 . As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it's performing in the market. With ...
Setting up vSAN iSCSI and using it as a Veeam Repository
Probably one of the least talked about features of vSAN is it's ability to serve out iSCSI volumes. The feature was released with vSAN 6.5 and was primarily ...
Released: Runecast Analyzer 1.7 with vSAN Support
Runecast has released version 1.7 of their Analyzer today and it has added support for VMware vSAN. By using a number of resources within VMware’s knowledge ...
Awarded vExpert Cloud - A New vExpert Sub Program
Last week Corey Romero announced the inaugural members of the vExpert Cloud sub-program . This is the third vExpert sub-program following the vSAN and NSX pr...
vSAN 6.6 - What's In It For Service Providers
Last February when VMware released VSAN 6.2 I stated that " Things had gotten Interesting " with regards to the 6.2 release of vSAN finally marking it's arri...
vExpert Pivot: NSX and VSAN Program Announcements
This week the VMware vExpert team officially lifted the lid on two new subprograms that focus on NSX and VSAN . The announcements signal a positive move for ...
VMworld 2016: Top Session Picks
VMworld 2016 is just around the corner (10 days and counting) and the theme this year is be_Tomorrow …which looks to build on the Ready for Any and Brave IT ...
VSAN 6.2: Reminder About Important Fix
[ UPDATE ] This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001. For more information, see VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-20160...
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 3
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it see...
VSAN Upgrading From 6.1 To 6.2 Hybrid To All Flash – Part 2
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it see...
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash - Part 1
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been a...
VSAN Permanent Disk Failure Detection – Health Status vs Hardware Status
A month or so ago I had one of our VSAN Management Clusters Health Status flag that there was a failed disk in one of the hosts disk groups. VSAN worked quic...
Quick Post - VSAN and Log Insight Custom Alerting Example
Log Insight is one of those great VMware products that needs to get more airplay as it has quiet a few applications other than a run of the mill log parser.....
VSAN 6.2 ESXi Patch Updates + DELL PERC Firmware Updates
I wanted to cover off a couple of important updates in this post relating to the DELL PERC storage controller Firmware and software drivers as well as an imp...
VSAN 6.2 + DELL PERC: Important Certified Driver Updates
As many of us rejoiced at the release of VSAN 6.2 that came with vSphere 6 Update 2...those of us running DELL PERC based storage controllers where quickly w...
vSphere 6 Update 2 - Whats In It for Service Providers
It's been just over a week since VMware released vSphere 6 Update 2 and I thought I would go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in ...
VSAN 6.2 - Price Changes for Service Providers!
Who said big corporations don't listen to their clients! VMware have come to the party in a huge way with the release of VSAN 6.2...and not only from a techn...
VSAN 6.2 - Things Just Got Interesting!
There is a saying in our industry that Microsoft always get their products right on the third attempt...and while this has been less and less the case of lat...
vCloud Air Rumours – vCAN in Focus…Again | VMware Rethinks Strategy
Well…the news isn’t great filtering out over the internets about the VMware Job Cuts and the apparent clipping of vCloud Air's wings. While this is yet to be...
Preserving VSAN + DELL PERC Critical Drivers after ESXi 6.0 CBT Update
Last week VMware released a patch to fix another issue with Change Block Tracking (CBT) which took the ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Build to 3247720. The update bundle ...
Dell PowerEdge FX2: VSAN Disk Configuration Steps
When you get your new DELL FX2s out of the box and powered on for the first time you will notice that the disk configuration has not been setup with VSAN in ...
Dell PowerEdge FX2: CMC Configuration Gotchya
Back in September I wrote an introductory post (If you haven't read that post click here ) on the DELL PowerEdge FX2 HCI hardware and why we had selected it ...
VSAN for Service Providers
Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message a...
First Look: Dell PowerEdge FX2 Converged Platform
For the last six months or so I've been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zet...
VMware VSAN: VSPP Pricing Revealed
Just after the release of VSAN a couple weeks back, I wrote this post talking about the need for VSAN to appear on the VSPP pricelist. At the time there only...